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'Red list' travel ban begins as UK tracks 55 more Indian variant cases

The last flight from India before the red list categorisation landed at Heathrow Airport in London from Delhi on Thursday evening

Phase 3 vaccination registration to start from April 28: Things to know

The central government had announced that the vaccination for those above 18 years will begin across the country from May 1 as part of the third phase of the inoculation drive

Rahul Gandhi slams Centre for oxygen shortage, lack of ICU beds

The lack of ICU beds and oxygen is causing deaths, rather than the disease itself: Rahul Gandhi

Oxygen tanker headed from Panipat to Sirsa goes missing, police files FIR

After being filled with liquid oxygen from Panipat plant on Wednesday, the truck had left for Sirsa, but it did not reach the destination

India Coronavirus Dispatch: 330,000 fresh cases in yet another grim record

Oxygen shortage was flagged twice last year, 6-7 million shots a day likely from May 1, and more-news relevant to India's fight against Covid-19

Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee skips Centre's Covid-19 meeting with CMs

Banerjee skipped Friday's meeting of CMs with Prime Minister Narendra Modi

Delhi: Max Hospital receives emergency oxygen supply after SOS

The Max Hospital-Saket on Friday morning sent out an SOS, saying it was left with "an hour's oxygen supply"

We never intended to transfer Covid-crisis cases from High Courts: SC

A judge in the bench of the Apex Court questioned senior lawyer Dushyant Dave as to how he commented on SC's intention without seeing the order

Oil demand to buckle in India as Coronavirus resurgence wreaks havoc

India has repeatedly shattered records for infections and deaths as the virus sweeps through the nation, stoking fears that the central government may be forced to implement another national lockdown

PM chairs meeting with CMs of 10 states over prevailing Covid-19 situation

Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a meeting on Friday with chief ministers of 10 states with the most number of Covid-19 cases

Nashik tragedy: Pune hospitals asked to conduct oxygen supply system audit

In the wake of the oxygen leak tragedy in Nashik that claimed 22 lives, the authorities in Pune have asked all the hospitals to conduct a third-party safety audit of the oxygen supply system

Covid-19: Fewer people infected in rural, semi-urban India; more are dying

Infections in rural and urban areas are also gathering pace, but deaths are growing faster than urban centres

Oxygen crisis: 25 Covid-19 patients die at Delhi's Sir Ganga Ram Hospital

Lives of another 60 such patients are at risk, officials said on Friday amid a serious oxygen crisis unfolding in the national capital

Staff shortage: AIIMS discontinues contact tracing of exposed workers

AIIMS has decided to discontinue contact tracing of exposed healthcare workers and quarantine of asymptomatic contacts amid the current Covid-19 situation

New virus strains more infectious but not fatally dangerous: Experts

Even as India records the highest ever surge in Covid cases, the country's top virologists and medical experts say that new strains of coronavirus are not so dangerous as perceived by many

Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, 8 other states account for 75% of new Covid-19 cases

Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, Karnataka, Kerala, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat and Rajasthan reported 75.01 per cent of the new Covid-19 cases registered in a day

Women and jobs: Will 'work from home' push more women into the workforce?

Women's educational attainment is rising, but labour force participation is falling

Uttar Pradesh: Prescription now mandatory to buy, refill oxygen cylinders

The Uttar Pradesh government has now made a doctor's prescription mandatory for buying oxygen or refilling cylinders

Singapore bars long-term pass holders, visitors travelling from India

All long-term pass holders and short-term visitors who have travelled to India within the last 14 days will not be allowed to enter or transit through Singapore from April 24

With 332,730 fresh cases in a single-day, India's Covid-19 misery continues

With a record single-day rise of 3,32,730 new coronavirus infections, India's total tally of Covid-19 cases climbed to 1,62,63,695, while active cases crossed the 2 million mark